Plagiarism/Attribution

[Julie aka Viola]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Amy Z" <aiz24 at h...>
wrote:
> The other is that in spite of her 
> quoting ways, this is not the way Harriet normally
talks--the 
> dramatic tone says, "this must be a quote."

True. Though with characters like Gherkins, for
example, it's a little harder to tell because
_everything_ he says has a dramatic tone. ^_^
 
> It's an interesting problem.  I'm planning to put an
unattributed 
> quote in tomorrow's birthday message to this list,
so watch for it! 
> ;-)

I've done the same thing myself in writing. I'm sure
most people have. I'll include a turn of phrase with a
little mental footnote of "Hey, that's from Cold
Comfort Farm or X/1999 or Casablanca." But with all
the recent online attention on what constituted
plagiarism, I've begun to wonder how that sort of
thing fits. A piece of fiction or a play isn't a
thesis, so it's much harder to designate clearly that
"this is not mine."
 
> I thought the dog collar was from Have His Carcase?

^_^ It's definitely from "Gaudy Night." Peter buys her
the dog collar just before she finally agrees to let
him give her the infamous red-and-white antique
chessmen, and just after he spends the afternoon
"strangling" her in a field just outside of Oxford.
Terribly romantic. *laughs*

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